G06F 3/0604
Improving or facilitating administration
Official title: {Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management}
G06F3/0604 (Improving or facilitating administration) appears on 18,183 US grants and 19,812 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 18,183
- Published applications
- 19,812
- Assignees
- 1,974
- Inventors
- 25,052
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 9 | 0 |
| 1995 | 12 | 0 |
| 1996 | 21 | 0 |
| 1997 | 23 | 0 |
| 1998 | 68 | 0 |
| 1999 | 69 | 0 |
| 2000 | 73 | 0 |
| 2001 | 90 | 27 |
| 2002 | 83 | 125 |
| 2003 | 97 | 193 |
| 2004 | 144 | 274 |
| 2005 | 152 | 351 |
| 2006 | 246 | 413 |
| 2007 | 228 | 378 |
| 2008 | 274 | 387 |
| 2009 | 285 | 328 |
| 2010 | 331 | 292 |
| 2011 | 322 | 362 |
| 2012 | 376 | 456 |
| 2013 | 439 | 455 |
| 2014 | 518 | 624 |
| 2015 | 576 | 670 |
| 2016 | 739 | 1007 |
| 2017 | 846 | 1176 |
| 2018 | 981 | 1002 |
| 2019 | 1167 | 1397 |
| 2020 | 1460 | 1663 |
| 2021 | 1607 | 1615 |
| 2022 | 1619 | 1849 |
| 2023 | 1631 | 1649 |
| 2024 | 1712 | 1343 |
| 2025 | 1278 | 1052 |
| 2026 | 682 | 724 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for recording cold/hot state of memory6 Oct 2026US 12,754,667 B2Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Limited
- Smart host stream release6 Oct 2026US 12,754,681 B2SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Resilient content distribution network6 Oct 2026US 12,754,684 B2Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Multi-partition file system for storing video streams in a managed non-volatile memory device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,685 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Data processing method and apparatus, and storage system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,688 B2Hygon Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Distributed memory for inference operations8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310348 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Enabling a shared namespace across multiple storage systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310349 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
- Persistent memory across updates8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310362 A1SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (dba Solidigm)
- Device, system and methods for initialization of configurable logic blocks8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310363 A1Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Dual-level refresh management8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310364 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for automatically configuring redundant arrays of disk memory devices1,392US 6,058,454 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
- Virtual ports for data transferring of a data storage system1,246US 6,421,711 B1EMC Corporation · 2002
- Intelligent virtual volume access1,162US 6,389,432 B1Auspex Systems, Inc. · 2002
- System of device independent file directories using a tag between the directories and file descriptors that migrate with the files1,137US 5,333,315 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1994
- Hierarchical backup and retrieval system1,117US 7,395,282 B1Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008